gordon@sneaky.UUCP (01/03/85)
Whose buggy notes-news interface generates system names that are too long, and have control characters in them? For example, in net.unix-wizards recently there was an article "Re: 4.2 lost mail" sent by (individual characters quoted so they won't get mixed up with the control characters): 'u' 'w' '-' 'b' 'e' 'a' 'v' 'e' 'r' '>' DEL DEL ^H This extra-long name also seems to cause replication of articles on the net, that aren't caught by nfrcv as duplicates. Gordon Burditt ihnp4!sys1!sneaky!gordon convex!ctvax!trsvax!sneaky!gordon
brad@bradley.UUCP (01/05/85)
I had the same problem on my machine, and found out it is caused by
the notes program itself. It turns out that notes holds 8 (I think)
bytes of a machine name. And when the machine name is 8 bytes long the
printf fails. A fix is to change the printfs to %-8.8s (which is what I did
and it worked) or change it to something like this.
This problem occurs quite a bit in 'fa.laser-lovers'.
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